Category Archives: writing

LEATHER, WHIPS, AND GUN-RUNNING ON THE RANGE–WHERE THE ARMS ARE BOUND

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh In honor of National Pet Appreciation Week,  here is a piece from our Archives As I archive the mid 19th and early 20th century Fiction House Publishing, I am finding bits and pieces of rough drafts and … Continue reading →

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SHERALEE, YOU’VE COME BACK TO ME

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh In loving honor of the creatures in our lives and National Pet Appreciation Week, Fiction House presents this story from our archives “Messages, Sheralee and the other heroic carrier pigeons delivered in their Abolitionist flights, led to … Continue reading →

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“SHERALEE, COME BACK TO ME.”

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh In honor of National Pet Appreciation Week, a loving pet tribute from our archives: ARCHIVING THE ONCE-RENOWNED FICTION HOUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY: Rustling through my great-great grandfather, publisher James Thaddeus ‘Blackjack’ Fiction’s artifacts, I come across a miniature … Continue reading →

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CHARLES DARWIN’S VICTORIAN ROMANCE

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh ‘THE literary romance of the 19th century.’ How a trusty bird made the romance take flight.  In honor of National Pet Appreciation Week. From the Fiction House Archives ~ ~ I watched her for so many consecutive … Continue reading →

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PET TO HUMAN DEDICATION: WHY WE HAVE NATIONAL PET APPRECIATION WEEK

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh In honor of National Pet Appreciation week, June 5, 2017, a Fiction House reminder of those furry, feathery, leathery, or fishy special residents in our hearts… I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction. … Continue reading →

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MOTHER’S DAY MAGIC

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh In honor of our mothers, from the archives of The Fiction House… I am James Thaddeus Fiction, the Fifth – a true Fiction. Typhoon tears me from my mother and father on board a sinking ferry near … Continue reading →

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MAY DAY ON THE BAYOU IN POEM AND STORY

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh From the Archives of the Fiction House.  Happy May Day! “Today Thibidioux chil’ to be born. Butterflies come and tell me so. ‘Come Mama Lucy – time to go.’” 110 year-old healer and midwife Mama Lucy chants … Continue reading →

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EYES OF A LIFETIME: A BAYOU POEM

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh FROM THE FICTION HOUSE FILES: In honor of National Poetry Month A Farewell to Lucius Abel.  That last day with him, his Mama relives every day. *     *      * All is dark. Just one thing she sees … Continue reading →

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A-TAX ON SYNTAX: HAPPY TAX WEEKEND

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Raji Singh

by Raji Singh We’re in the Ides of April, National Poetry Month. Here’s a little celebratory prose and verse, To lighten the burden of the tax day curse. It’s the 1890s. Fiction House’s hired hand, Efraim Ephraim, lounges alone in … Continue reading →

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THE TALE OF AN EASTER LILY AND A DESERT RESURRECTION IN POETRY AND PROSE

Posted on April 9, 2017 by Raji Singh

By Raji Singh It is a time for Easter, Passover, and various human (‘two-leg’) celebrations. Plant, bird, butterfly, and creature (the ‘four-legs’) celebrate, too. They call it Transformation: The Time of the Great Desert Pilgrimage. For your two-leg reading pleasure, … Continue reading →

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